Make Things (Happen) is intended to multiply creative activity. Artist Christine Wong Yap asked 29 artists to create activity sheets as part of her project for Social in Practice: The Art of Collaboration. These are downloadable here and freely available in the exhibition. Anyone and everyone are invited to use them to make things or make things happen, then share their results (#mkthngs or #mkthngshppn) to encourage further participation.

KYPSELI

8 - 30 September

as part of ReMap 4, Athens

KYPSELI is an independent publication initiated by a company of creators who live in or care for the neighborhood of Kypseli in Athens. The publication follows in the DIY tradition of fanzines, it is printed black and white on low gram paper; it comes out every two months in an edition of 300 numbered copies and is distributed independently in the city of Athens and abroad. The subject matter varies but they always relate –in a concrete or abstract way- to personal experiences of the neighborhood and the city and illustrate the ways and mores of a beehive –literal meaning of the word "kypseli" in Greek- of artists who live and work in this area of the city.
Contributors and guests from Greece and abroad participate in the show with small works, interventions, editions and printed matter. The fourth issue of the fanzine and limited copies of previous issues will be available at the venue.

Drawing influence from either side of the Modernist movement, 'White Teeth in the Planetarium' presents a series of dystopian sculptures made from pigmented wax, fiberglass, clear acrylic, paint and plastic laminate. Monumental forms and fragmented arrangements are dressed up in fake-façades, forging unstable material relationships. Ziggurats, ellipses and fluting dissect more purposeful lines. Art Deco meets Brutalism – Liverpool's Queensway and Kingsway ventilation buildings in conversation.

A large folded screen divides the gallery, its thick waxy surface embossed with an Art Deco motif resembling a grandiose doorway or portal. Behind this sits a black shiny megalithic slab with a deep bowl containing a puddle of liquid. Upon this a fleshy lump of wax is sandwiched between the two sides of a clear acrylic shell form. Symbolism is embraced and abstracted here as with other works throughout the show.

Whether through detailed, opulently finished or more immediate processes, McLardy's sculptures represent an artist intent on questioning notions of aesthetical and materialist authenticity through quizzical and sometimes comic means.

The Cockeyed Turkey and a Paper Pudding

05 December 2012– 05 January 2013
The Lighthouse, Glasgow

The Cockeyed Turkey team comes together in the spirit of Christmas to create a contemporary art and design pop up shop (of sorts) full of festive cheer and must-haves that will be gone quicker than you can pull a Christmas cracker. Don't expect a run of the mill Christmas store; this is no turkey. We have plenty of stuffing to feast your eyes on.

The Cockeyed Turkey team will be exhibiting a wide range of artists and designers who'll each be contributing work to our brightly coloured art canned food drive. We will also be showing a selection of works by the some twenty-seven artists and designers who have each contributed a page to the Cockeyed Turkey Jumbo Activity Book – a combination of colouring in, cut-out, dot-to-dot and other pieces suitable for all ages.

So, prepare for a seasonal selection box of colouring books, posters and furniture ready to take pride of place under your tree. With a portion of the proceeds going to MediCinema at Yorkhill Children's Hospital, you'll leave with your spirits and stockings filled high with a fantasia of good cheer, home-ware, print and all things Riso.

Glasgow Women's Library is a phenomenon: the sole resource of its kind in Scotland. We are celebrating our 21st birthday by commissioning 21 women artists to make new work inspired by GWL's library, archive and museum artefacts. Artists have created work that draws on sources including campaign badges, knitting patterns, suffragette ephemera, album covers, feminist newsletters and lesbian dime novels.

Art Lending Library

Art Lending Library was an ambitious new commission by Zoe Walker and Neil Bromwich which took the form of an experimental library and public procession. Conceived and curated by Market Gallery it provides the unique opportunity for the people of Glasgow to borrow works of art and enjoy them within their homes, work places and community centres.

It brings together for the first time over 60 works by a diverse range of artists working across the broad spectrum of formats available within contemporary visual arts practice. The project has been made possible through the generosity of participating artists in gifting their works to the people of Glasgow for the duration of the festival.

Housed appropriately within the 100 year old Mitchell Library, one of the largest lending libraries in Europe, the Art Lending Library follows the model of a public lending library which members of the public can join free of charge.

The project stands to in resistance to the tide of narrowing access to the arts and education by creating an egalitarian space where art can be borrowed and enjoyed by all sectors of society.

Join the opening ceremony, a public procession of the Art Lending Library through the streets of Glasgow from George Square to the Mitchell Library. Join artists, librarians and members of the public in launching this revolutionary project. Prize for the best librarain outfit at the parade.

PDA Curtain Showroom

23 - 25 March, 11.00 - 17.00

3rd Floor, 84 Miller Street, Glasgow

The Telfer Gallery opens its doors with a conceptual closing down - bringing you up close and personal with the best in elegance, selection, affordability and creativity, while stock lasts. For three days only, we invite you to indulge yourself in the exquisite offerings of the Telfer gallery, and secure your place on the international art map. Be seen, and enter the discourse! That's right – taking the idea of the 'final curtain' as a point of regeneration and new beginnings, artists Laura Yuile and Orsolya Bajusz are giving the Telfer gallery (an exciting hotbed of cultural activity and small trade – conveniently located on Miller Street, at the bustling heart of Glasgow's city centre) a discursive dust down and the chance for a fresh start!

Featuring newly commissioned works by 21 artists, the exhibition's transformatory intentions are met with the features of instability, uncertainty and loss of control so familiar to artists working in today's harsh reality. From bold patterns to sensational sheers, we offer a range of modern, contemporary and traditional-inspired pieces, sure to transform and enhance even the bleakest of situations. Showcasing the latest styles, colours and textures, the artists seek to explore the boundaries between public and private space, engaging the viewer in a conversation about freedom, value and décor. Shut out the blinding light of day and take refuge in our fine display of contemporary art, as our experienced consultants help your home enter the discourse with style. As a local company, service is our speciality!

Artist's for Athens Pride IV

Saturday 17 March, 18.00 - 22.00

The Breeder, 45 Iasonos St, Metaxourgeio, Athens

OUT OF RUBBLE

OUT OF RUBBLE reacts to the wake of war — its realities and its representations. The rubble that each war leaves behind shapes today and tomorrow — physically, psychologically, culturally and spiritually. OUT OF RUBBLE presents works by international artists and architects who consider the causes and consequences of rubble, its finality and future, moving from decimation and disintegration to the possibilities of regeneration and recovery.

Facing the failure and wreckage of war, the poet Wislawa Szymborska wrote: "Reality demands that we mention this: Life goes on." Artists meet this demand through responses that are invariably somber, tender and unflinching. They mourn the havoc we wreak and, however imperfectly and inadequately, atone the atrocities we commit. Through images and narratives bound up in the crises of truth, they acknowledge yet strive toward the impossible task of comprehending the incomprehensible. Before and long after the rubble is cleared, they review, anticipate and sometimes lay ground for what needs to be rebuilt.